Americas

The marketplace lender LoanDepot has securitized $150 million of its unsecured personal loans.

Peoples Bancorp in Marietta, Ohio, plans to increase reserves by $6.6 million to cover four commercial loans that it's moved to impaired status.

NexBank in Dallas has bought College Savings Bank in Princeton, N.J.

Premara Financial in Charlotte, N.C., has raised $8.5 million in a stock offering and plans to exit the Small Business Lending Fund program.

Achieva Credit Union in Dunedin, Fla., has received regulatory approval to buy Calusa Bank in Punta Gorda, Fla.

First Niagara Financial Group in Buffalo, N.Y., considered offers from four potential acquirers before deciding in late October to sell itself to KeyCorp.

Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley became the latest big banks Monday to promise to cut their support for the coal industry in the name of reducing the pollution blamed for global warming.

The $9.8 billion-asset Great Western said in a press release Monday that it will pay about $140 million, or $19.70 a share, in cash and stock for the $1.2 billion-asset parent of Home Federal Bank.

Evans Bancorp in Hamburg, N.Y., has hired John Connerton to become its chief financial officer.

Financial Institutions in Warsaw, N.Y., has agreed to buy Courier Capital, an investment advisory firm in Buffalo, N.Y.